Literary Fiction
Ward No. 6
Read by Expatriate
Anton Chekhov
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge…
The Beautiful and Damned (Version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Antho…
Waverley, Volume 1
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Sir Walter Scott
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…
Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The story tells of the inner turmoil of Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg who commits murder. His psychological and moral agit…
Historia de la vida del Buscón, llamado Don Pablos, ejemplo de vagabundos y esp…
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Francisco De Quevedo
Clásica novela picaresca española del Siglo de Oro, del gran Don Francisco de Quevedo. En ella se narran las extravagantes and…
Swann's Way (Version 2)
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Marcel Proust
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." …
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I
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Xueqin Cao and Xueqin Cao 曹雪芹
The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…
The Pickwick Papers (version 3)
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Charles Dickens
Mr Pickwick, founder of the Pickwick Club, sets out with his three friends, Tupman, Snodgrass, and Winkle, to observe the world. They inten…
Die toten Seelen
Read by Eva K.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Pawel Tschitschikow entwirft eine groteske Idee, die ihn zu Geld bringen soll. Er macht Geschäfte mit Leibeigenen, und zwar mit toten! …
Marguerite de Valois
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of …
La garçonne
Read by Pauline Latournerie
Victor Margueritte
Ce "roman de moeurs" à thèse présente une jeune femme indépendante menant une vie sexuelle très…
Sister Carrie
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carr…
Florentinische Nächte
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Heinrich Heine
Maximilian erzählt seiner kranken Freundin auf Anraten des Arztes "närrische Geschichten", damit sie ruhig liegen bleibt…
Hunger
Read by Greg W.
Knut Hamsun
Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hail…
Hide and Seek
Read by Anna Simon
Wilkie Collins
The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment i…
Cuentos de Hadas
Read by Victor Villarraza
Charles Perrault
Perrault fue un autor francés que puso las bases por escrito de un nuevo género que haría historia, la de los "Cue…
The Aspern Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…
Sons and Lovers (Version 2)
Read by Tony Foster
D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912:“It follows this idea: a woman of character and refine…
こころ (Kokoro)
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Sōseki Natsume
語り手は、鎌倉の海岸で、先生と知り合いになる。東京に戻ってからも度々、先生の家を訪ねた。先生は、苦悩持っていた。先生の友人Ｋが、先生が若い頃に自殺をした。先生は、毎月、その友人の墓を訪ねていた。 語り手が、大学を卒業し、父の病の為に帰省したままで、東京に戻れない時、先生からの遺書…
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3)
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Mark Twain
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s.…